From those of you who missed out on the Star Trek: TOS figures from Art Asylum from around five years ago, Diamond is releasing them on new cards starting with Captain Kirk (yellow shirt) and Mr. Spock. They're listed at Big Bad Toy Store under the Star Trek/Diamond section. The sculpts are the same as the 2003 Art Asylum figures which are now pricey and scarce so this should be great news for some Trek collectors.

I was curious about this. I bought my first Diamond Select Star Trek figure (TNG Picard) recenlty and to my surprise it was much larger than the Art Asylum TOS figures. Are the new releases by diamond in the same scale as the Art Asylum or are they larger scale as the TNG figures?

-J

_________________"...To rejoice at the sight of my superhero action figures is to live in a shrine of fictive meaning festooned with idols and icons of the gods of imagination." -Dr. Robert M. Price

Hey, Sallah! Nice to see you posting on here, man. I was thinking of starting a TNG collection but if the scale between them and the TOS figures is too great, I might pass. I was going to start with boxed Picard and Riker in their Command Chairs. Are they out of scale with TOS Kirk and Pike, as well?

Playmates did a TNG 6'' or so line near the end of its run but I'm guessing the TOS figures would tower over them, right?

Yeah, I never liked the hip articulation and mostly useless hands on the Playmates stuff, but the head sculpts were spot on. Shatner got a few good likenesses and they nailed James Cromwell in the above photo. Picard looks nothing like Patrick Stewart by comparison.

Awesome blog, Sallah! "Mirror, Mirror" is tied with "Errand of Mercy" as my favorite TOS episode of all time and the Mirror Enterprise just rocks. Love the Terran Empire insignia on this version. Even the die cut box packaging looks cool. I'm gonna have to start collecting these babies one of these days!

Does anyone know if the TOS two-packs are relatively the same as the original singles? Do they come with the same accessories, etc.? I tried to look them up on a few sites, but the information isn't very clear. I never went after any of these figures when they were released, but I've been on a Star Trek binge recently and I'd like to start collecting them.